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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

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You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.